Abstract:

The aim of this study is to investigate whether 8 weeks of public games exercises have an impact on the level of subjective well-being of university students. The research group consists of 25 women (50%) and 25 men (50%) students who study at Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University and who have not previously received public games education. In the study, the preliminary test - the final test control group-free semi-experimental pattern was used. The data collection tool was used as "Personal Information Form" and "Subject Good Creation Scale" developed by Tuzgöl Dost (2004). The data analysis is based on the SPSS 16.0 program. During the evaluation of the data, the standard distribution of parameters in compliance with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, One Way ANOVA and the Student t test were applied in bilateral comparisons. The results were evaluated at the 95% confidence interval and the significance level of p<0.05. As a result of the study; A statistically significant difference was found between the Subjective Well-Being Scale pre-test and post-test applied to the research group (p<0.05). In addition, when the gender variable was examined, it was seen that there was a statistically significant difference between the pre-test total scores of male students and the pre-test total scores of female students in favor of male students.